Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing learns that the Golden Dragon District Sanitation Bureau is overseeing a public restroom project on Financial Avenue. He orders Wei Changjia to secure it, even if Phantom Immortal Technology must build it for free.
• Wei quickly wins the project. Shen transfers 500,000 yuan from the company’s reserve, assigns workers from the factory site, and pays 200,000 yuan upfront. Construction proceeds rapidly behind unusually tall fencing to heighten the eventual unveiling.
• Chang Lu, Nancy Group’s suspended procurement manager, meets Young Master Yu. Chang explains that Phantom Immortal Technology’s curtain-wall glass costs only 500 yuan per square meter and shows him a sample.
• Young Master Yu realizes the discovery threatens the glass-wall contract he had promised to Lin Zijian through a shady arrangement. He takes the sample, promises to help Chang regain his position, and visits the hospitalized Lin. They spend hours plotting.
• Three days later, workers and passersby gather around the completed restroom. Wang Siguo sees what looks like a vivid, lifelike garden scene and realizes the building’s façade uses extraordinary glasses-free 3D technology. He doubts it is an ordinary screen and suspects the restroom conceals something remarkable.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing is decisive and willing to spend money strategically, treating the restroom project as a chance to showcase Phantom Immortal Technology.
• Wei Changjia proves efficient, securing the project almost immediately.
• Chang Lu shifts from arrogance to ingratiating dependence after his public dine-and-dash incident leads to suspension. Rather than accept responsibility, he blames Phantom Immortal Technology and tries to enlist Young Master Yu.
• Young Master Yu moves from disbelief to intense interest when he sees the glass sample. His concern is driven by the risk that Lin Zijian might expose their corrupt deal.
• Wang Siguo, an observant bank employee, serves as the public’s first witness to the restroom’s astonishing appearance.

Significant themes

• Technology as spectacle: The restroom is more than infrastructure; its façade demonstrates how advanced materials can transform an ordinary public building.
• Business rivalry and corruption: The low-cost glass threatens a lucrative arrangement, prompting powerful figures to plot against Phantom Immortal Technology.
• Public image and blame: Chang Lu’s scandal damages his career, but he directs his resentment outward instead of taking responsibility.
• Strategic investment: Shen accepts an apparent loss to gain visibility and make a dramatic impression on a busy street.

Plot points and events

• The Dream Restroom becomes Financial Street’s sensation. Its unusual “Miracle Glass” walls appear to contain realistic, three-dimensional scenes that change from a garden to a stream, baffling observers and attracting widespread attention.
• At Nancy Group headquarters, Chairman Fang Yuanming recognizes the restroom’s publicity value. He asks General Manager Zhao to contact the sanitation bureau director for information, hoping to create a similarly memorable feature for the group’s upcoming commercial complex.
• Shen Bing learns that a thief broke into his glass factory. Two guard dogs stripped the intruder but deliberately avoided seriously injuring him. Shen calls the police, then has Wang Dong discreetly follow the suspect after his release.
• Wang Dong discovers the thief was acting on a middle-aged man’s orders and traces that man to a hospital patient named Lin Zijian. Shen suspects the break-in is connected to Fatty Chang and to a conversation he overheard earlier—especially since Lin’s family company makes LCD substrates but may be involved in glass curtain walls.
• To investigate further, Shen asks Little Doudou to spy on the person it previously afflicted with Plague God Possession. Little Doudou agrees after Shen promises an Immortal Realm fish.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing is patient and calculating: rather than confronting the thief directly, he uses the police and Wang Dong’s reconnaissance skills to uncover a possible conspiracy. His exceptionally strong memory helps him connect the new evidence to an earlier conversation.
• Wang Dong, a former reconnaissance soldier, shows initiative and enthusiasm for surveillance, quickly uncovering the link between the thief, the middleman, and Lin Zijian.
• Little Doudou is reluctant to take on the spying task but is easily persuaded by the promise of a rare fish; its suspicion that Shen might break his promise amuses and slightly wounds him.
• Fang Yuanming and Manager Zhao discuss how novelty and contrast can turn a product into a public talking point.
• Shen’s father calls to report that a yellow dog has sold well and asks for more valuable breeds, suggesting he has begun to recognize the dogs’ unusual appeal.

Significant themes

• Publicity through spectacle: The Dream Restroom’s unusual setting makes Miracle Glass far more talked-about than a conventional product display.
• Technology and mystery: The glass’s changing, lifelike imagery challenges observers’ assumptions about what the material can do.
• Cleverness over force: The dogs deter the thief without causing serious harm, while Shen relies on surveillance and deduction to pursue the people behind the break-in.
• Growing intrigue: The attempted theft appears connected to a broader business conflict involving glass technology, rival companies, and Fatty Chang.

Summary

• Shen Bing visits campus after Little Doudou leaves. At the dorm, he jokes with Sun Li, who says their other roommates are either pursuing romance or trying to improve their prospects. Shen Bing then spends the day at the library, studying conventional graphics and image-processing technology so he can better understand the advanced technology he has acquired.
• He crosses paths with Wang Yanxi, the campus beauty who had once clung to him and called herself his girlfriend. They exchange a brief, smiling glance but no words. Shen Bing is stirred by the encounter, then convinces himself it was only a polite greeting and tries to put it out of mind.
• Little Doudou returns with intelligence it gathered about Lin Zijian and his family’s glass business. The cat demon has typed up its findings and cheekily asks Shen Bing to obtain an “Immortal Fish.”
• The document reveals a scheme against Shen Bing’s company. Lin Zijian, son of the head of a major glass manufacturer, had arranged a three-million-yuan kickback to help secure a construction contract. After seeing Shen Bing’s unusual glass, he recognized its commercial potential. His company failed to reproduce it, and an attempt to steal technical documents also failed. Lin Zijian now plans to approach Illusion Immortal Glass to buy its technology or acquire the factory.
• Shen Bing reacts angrily and decides to meet Lin Zijian’s representatives himself. The next day, before they contact him, he receives a call from Wang Sheng.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing remains confident in his new resources but shows a more vulnerable side around Wang Yanxi, whose smile briefly unsettles him. He is also becoming more focused: he studies image processing to build on his advanced technology and responds to the threat to his company with resolve.
• Wang Yanxi remembers their previous encounter and blushes, but the pair merely exchange smiles and pass without speaking. The scene leaves Shen Bing unsure of what the moment means.
• Little Doudou is portrayed as capable, intelligent, and mischievous, acting as Shen Bing’s scout while demanding a reward.
• Lin Zijian emerges as an ambitious rival who sees Shen Bing’s glass as a major business opportunity and is willing to pursue it through bribery, attempted theft, or acquisition.
• Shen Bing’s brief banter with Sun Li and his silent cohabitation with Li Xiao provide contrast to the more consequential business conflict unfolding around him.

Significant themes

• Innovation and technological advantage: Shen Bing’s advanced glass and image-processing technology set him apart, while competitors struggle to understand or reproduce it.
• Ambition and unethical competition: Lin Zijian’s bribery and attempted theft show how commercial rivalry can turn predatory.
• Self-deception and romantic uncertainty: Shen Bing’s internal debate over Wang Yanxi’s smile reveals feelings he is reluctant to admit.
• Learning as preparation: Despite possessing extraordinary technology, Shen Bing recognizes that he must first understand the fundamentals to use it effectively.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing learns that the Nancy Building Project Department is interested in Dream Glass after the company’s free public-restroom project attracted attention. He tells Wang Sheng to send the test report and raise the quoted price by ten yuan per square meter, joking that the extra amount covers “interest.”
• A notification from the Gate to the Immortal Realm reveals that Lu Ban has been waiting for Shen Bing. Shen Bing is annoyed to discover he could have received alerts instead of spending days watching the screen.
• Lu Ban shows Shen Bing the completed Immortal Carriage and takes him to a vast, magically expanded workshop inside a mountain.
• There, Shen Bing sees Lu Ban’s Divine Puppet Artisans: highly capable, adaptable machines that can shape materials and inscribe extremely precise Immortal Arrays. Recognizing their potential for Earth’s manufacturing, Shen Bing asks Lu Ban for one.
• Lu Ban cannot spare any of his twelve puppets because he must build ten thousand Immortal Carriages for the Jade Emperor. He offers to make another, but only if Shen Bing can provide an unclaimed soul of a Great Golden Immortal—a seemingly impossible requirement.
• Just as Shen Bing gives up on finding such a soul, a random-quest notification appears.

Character development and interactions

• Shen Bing remains pragmatic and opportunistic: he handles his company’s deal with a mix of caution and humor, then quickly turns his attention to acquiring technology that could transform manufacturing. His confidence in bargaining gives way to frustration when Lu Ban names the required soul.
• Wang Sheng acts as Shen Bing’s business assistant, relaying the client’s inquiry and questioning the price increase. Shen Bing gives him little explanation beyond calling it “interest.”
• Lu Ban is proud of his craftsmanship and appreciative of Shen Bing’s past help, but his obligations prevent him from giving away a puppet. He offers an alternative, though its cost is extraordinary.
• Shen Bing and Lu Ban interact with mutual respect, but Shen Bing’s inner commentary contrasts his performed dignity with his very worldly desire for the Divine Puppet Artisans.

Significant themes

• Technology and ambition: Shen Bing sees the puppets as a bridge between supernatural craftsmanship and Earth’s industrial needs.
• The gap between worlds: The puppets’ precision far surpasses human technology, while the Great Golden Immortal soul requirement makes their power difficult to obtain.
• Comedy through contrast: Shen Bing presents himself as a lofty immortal while thinking like a businessman and technology entrepreneur.
• Opportunity and uncertainty: The quest notification hints that the impossible task may soon lead to a new opportunity.

Chapter Summary

• Shen Bing accepts a risky quest: He accidentally accepts Lu Ban’s request to collect a Great Luo Golden Immortal Remnant Soul within a year. Failure would earn Lu Ban’s suspicion, but Shen Bing dismisses the penalty because he has no idea how to complete the task.
• Lu Ban rewards him with a carriage: Lu Ban presents Shen Bing with the first Self-Propelled Immortal Carriage, which can travel on land and fly using an Immortal Array. Shen Bing accepts the gift, but the system immediately completes the quest and teleports him away, leaving Lu Ban puzzled by his abrupt departure.
• The carriage proves powerful but incomplete: Shen Bing names it Old Ban and learns it is an Incomplete Immortal Artifact. It can alter its size and appearance and reach speeds of up to 2,000 kilometers per hour, but it lacks an artifact spirit. Shen Bing is pleased with its potential, especially the possibility of disguising it as a modern luxury car.
• System limits frustrate Shen Bing: His first two attempts to analyze Old Ban fail; the third yields Super Titanium Alloy Smelting Technology. However, transferring the technology costs 10 immortal jade, while transferring the carriage would cost 1,000. Unable to afford either, Shen Bing ends the day irritated by having valuable rewards he cannot use.
• Dream Glass draws business attention: Shen Bing leaves home after being contacted about Dream Glass, whose striking appearance has spread widely through social media. Lin Zijian, whose Good Fortune Glass Factory is far larger than Shen Bing’s Illusion Immortal Glass Factory, sends an emissary to pursue its production technology “at all costs.”

Character Developments and Interactions

Shen Bing remains impulsive and irreverent: he accepts the quest without thinking, privately mocks its consequences, and is more interested in the carriage’s showy appeal than its remarkable Immortal craftsmanship. His encounter with the system also teaches him to be more cautious about quests and forced analysis. Lu Ban is courteous and proud of his creation, though Shen Bing suspects he is stingy and wary. Meanwhile, Lin Zijian’s move signals that Shen Bing’s invention is beginning to attract serious commercial competition.

Significant Themes

The chapter contrasts extraordinary supernatural rewards with practical inaccessibility: Shen Bing gains an Immortal Artifact and advanced technology, but system fees keep them out of reach. It also explores status and spectacle, as Shen Bing imagines the carriage as a way to impress people, and the rapid spread and commercial value of innovation, as Dream Glass’s viral popularity draws the attention of a powerful rival.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing meets a representative sent by his former classmate Lin Zijian to discuss buying Dream Glass technology. Shen refuses any real negotiation, demands fifty billion, and leaves before the representative can introduce himself.
• The next day, Wang Sheng reports that Phantom Immortal Technology has secured a contract with the Nancy Building Project Department to supply Dream Glass for the Nancy Building’s exterior. The deal includes a twenty-percent advance, which will help pay for factory equipment.
• Shen arrives at the signing venue expecting a routine contract meeting but finds a crowd of reporters. He learns that the Nancy Group publicized the project in advance, attracting media attention and using Dream Glass to promote the Nancy Building.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing is blunt, impatient, and openly hostile toward Lin Zijian’s representative, letting personal resentment override business etiquette. At the signing, he recognizes the Nancy Group’s publicity strategy and tolerates it because the contract is valuable—though he is annoyed that no one warned him.
• The representative is experienced in business but is thrown off by Shen’s abruptness. He concludes that Shen and Lin Zijian have a serious conflict.
• Wang Sheng has successfully negotiated the Nancy deal and reports its terms to Shen.
• Liao Yanfang, the Nancy project manager, is astonished that Shen is a young computer-science student rather than someone trained in glass manufacturing. She admires Dream Glass but finds Shen’s achievements hard to reconcile with his age and background.
• Shen interacts with Wang, his company’s finance staffer, and Nancy Group officials before learning that the signing ceremony is also a publicity event.

Significant themes

• Personal conflict versus professionalism: Shen’s grudge against Lin Zijian shapes his conduct in a major business discussion.
• Business and publicity: The Nancy Group turns the Dream Glass contract into a promotional opportunity, hoping to raise the building’s profile and property values.
• Unexpected success and youthful ambition: Shen’s breakthrough product and large-scale deal contrast sharply with his status as an undergraduate.
• Shen’s business shortcomings: His impatience and casual presentation suggest that, despite his technical and entrepreneurial success, he lacks conventional business polish.

Plot points and events

• The contract ceremony is delayed until Nancy Group Chairman Fang Yuanming arrives, underscoring the importance Nancy Group attaches to Dream Glass.
• Fang surprises everyone by offering to double the purchase price in exchange for exclusive rights to sell Dream Glass in Rongcheng.
• Shen Bing recognizes the value of the local market and refuses to accept the initial offer. After Fang raises the price to three times the original amount, Shen agrees.
• The deal reaches nearly 500 million yuan. Nancy Group receives Rongcheng exclusivity, while Phantom Immortal Technology is responsible only for supplying the glass and installation drawings.
• Fang presents the agreement as a major investment in the Nancy Building. Shen gives an improvised, generic motivational speech to reporters, then leaves with his employees and the signed contract.

Character developments

• Shen Bing shows business acumen and composure, bargaining rather than being dazzled by Fang’s status or money. He also values employees who think about the company’s long-term interests.
• Fang Yuanming comes across as punctual, calculating, and confident. His escalating offer reveals how highly Nancy Group values control of Dream Glass in Rongcheng.
• Wang Sheng, Wei Changjia, and Zhuang Xin are disappointed that the company gives up local exclusivity, but their concern reflects genuine commitment to its growth.

Character interactions

• Fang tests Shen with a lucrative offer; Shen counters by holding out until the price rises enough to justify the exclusivity.
• Wang silently warns Shen against sacrificing Rongcheng’s future market for a quick payout, while Shen later appreciates his team’s loyalty.
• Reporters expect polished business remarks, but Shen’s blunt departure leaves them—and the Nancy Group representatives—surprised.

Significant themes

• Short-term gains versus long-term opportunity: the large payment comes at the cost of Phantom Immortal Technology’s access to the Rongcheng market.
• Negotiation and leverage: both sides understand the deal’s strategic value, and Shen uses his willingness to refuse exclusivity to secure a much higher price.
• Publicity and business confidence: Nancy Group’s investment signals faith in Dream Glass, while the press turns the agreement into a major news event.

Plot points and events

• On the way back from negotiating with Fang Yuanming, Wang Sheng questions Shen Bing’s decision to accept a higher price rather than pursue a larger long-term deal. Shen explains that Fang’s offer means nearly 500 million in profit.
• Shen reveals his strategy: turn Dream Glass into a luxury product. He argues that it meets the key conditions—strong demand, a high price, and deliberately limited supply.
• The team sees how exclusive sales could spark competition among developers, with only one project in each city receiving Dream Glass. Shen’s ambition is to create a world-class luxury brand from China and earn substantial profits internationally.
• Shen assigns Wang Sheng to recruit staff and rent office space, while the company builds a website to announce its sales plan.
• Wang Sheng recruits Zhang Zi’an to lead Human Resources. The company begins establishing its Finance, Sales, Administration, Legal, and Network departments, though several department heads—and a Technology Department—remain absent.
• Just as Shen expects a quiet spell, his father calls, saying he is in trouble and needs Shen to return home.

Character development and interactions

• Shen Bing reveals himself as an ambitious, strategic entrepreneur. He sees scarcity and prestige—not just the glass’s technical qualities—as tools for building value, and he wants to challenge foreign dominance in luxury goods.
• Wang Sheng shifts from frustration and skepticism to excitement once he understands Shen’s plan. His sudden realization causes him to brake abruptly, nearly injuring Shen and alarming the other drivers.
• Zhuang Xin and Wei Changjia also move from doubt to enthusiasm and take responsibility for building the company’s Finance and Sales functions.
• Zhang Zi’an joins after Wang persuades him with the prospect of helping create a homegrown luxury brand.
• The team’s exchanges emphasize Shen’s visionary leadership and his employees’ growing commitment, while also showing the practical strain of building a company with limited funds and few staff.

Significant themes

• Creating value through scarcity and branding: A product’s status and controlled availability can matter as much as its practical use.
• Entrepreneurship and national ambition: Shen wants China to produce luxury goods that can compete globally rather than merely supply raw materials for foreign brands.
• Vision versus execution: Shen sets an expansive strategy, while Wang and the others must recruit, secure premises, and build the company’s departments.
• Uncertainty and dependence: The plan relies on keeping Dream Glass’s manufacturing technology exclusive, and the chapter ends by introducing a new personal crisis through Shen’s father.

Plot points and events

• Shen Bing races from Rongcheng to Qingyuan after his father reports that soldiers have taken over the family dog farm, without explaining why.
• Meanwhile, news spreads about Phantom Immortal Technology’s 500-million-yuan contract to supply Dream Glass for the Nancy Building. Reports focus mainly on Nancy Group chairman Fang Yuanming, while Shen Bing’s identity remains difficult to recognize in the photos.
• Shen Bing’s roommates spot the coverage and gradually realize that the entrepreneur pictured is their usually low-key roommate. They are stunned by the possibility that he is becoming a billionaire, but mostly respond by joking about making him pay for a feast. Their attempt to call him fails because he is driving through a tunnel.
• Shen reaches the dog farm and finds it guarded by soldiers. More than a hundred troops are inspecting the dogs, and Shen is escorted inside after an ID check.
• He finds his father looking comfortable and pleased, with a lieutenant colonel personally offering him a cigarette. Shen concludes that his father’s claim of being “in trouble” was misleading—and that he has dragged Shen into some new complication.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing is exasperated by his father’s vague call and remains wary as he assesses the military presence at the farm. His quick observations help him recognize that the situation is more than an ordinary dispute.
• Shen’s father appears to have concealed the true circumstances from his son; his relaxed demeanor and warm treatment by a senior officer make Shen suspect he has engineered or welcomed the situation.
• Sun Li, Old Yang, and Wang Bo move from disbelief to astonishment when they connect the news report’s details to Shen’s company and clothing. Their teasing shows their familiar, largely unchanged friendship with him.
• Fang Yuanming gains publicity from the Dream Glass deal, while Nancy Group’s suspension of retail-unit sales fuels public interest in the building.

Significant themes

• Public image and selective publicity: Media coverage emphasizes the powerful client and downplays Shen and his company.
• Success and sudden status changes: Shen’s business achievement shocks his roommates, though it has not yet changed their easygoing relationship with him.
• Family miscommunication and comic suspicion: Shen’s father’s vague “trouble” call contrasts sharply with his cheerful reception at the farm.
• An unexplained escalation: The soldiers’ inspection of the dogs hints that the farm—and possibly its animals—has become important to a larger operation.

Key plot points

• Lieutenant Colonel Gao Jingchuan visits Shen Bing’s father, hoping to learn how Puppy Planet Dog Farm produced exceptionally intelligent mongrels. One dog had recently outperformed every military dog at Gao’s base, and he had traced it back to the farm.
• Shen’s father admits he doesn’t know the cause and sends Gao to his son. Shen Bing reveals that he trained the dogs using a supposed intelligence-enhancing medicine recipe from an old book. He claims the book was lost after he used it as toilet paper.
• Gao asks to buy the formula. Shen refuses, explaining that it is vital to his father’s business. Instead, he offers to donate it to the military if Gao can arrange a tax exemption for his new company, Phantom Immortal Technology.
• Gao agrees and consults his superiors. They discover the company is new, has little registered capital, and has paid no taxes, but city officials still agree to issue the exemption.
• Gao believes he has secured a tremendous bargain for the military and feels guilty that Shen has been shortchanged.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing is quick-thinking and commercially savvy. He invents a story about the recipe to conceal the real source of the dogs’ abilities, then negotiates a benefit for his company in exchange for the formula.
• Gao Jingchuan is ambitious about improving military-dog capabilities, but acts respectfully rather than threatening Shen. His eagerness and limited knowledge of Shen’s business lead him to accept what he thinks is an advantageous deal.
• Shen’s father is embarrassed by the attention and smoothly redirects Gao’s questions to his son, while privately recognizing that Shen is making things up.
• The central interaction is a negotiation built on mismatched assumptions: Shen knows the tax exemption costs the government little because his company has paid no taxes, while Gao assumes the formula is worth vastly more.

Significant themes

• Deception and irony: Shen’s fabricated explanation fools Gao, who thinks he has outmaneuvered Shen even as Shen has secured the outcome he wanted.
• Commercial value versus public benefit: The formula could strengthen national security, but it is also a valuable asset that supports a private business.
• Negotiation and power: Shen acknowledges that national interests carry weight, yet finds a practical way to bargain without openly resisting the military’s request.

Plot points and events

• After Gao Jingchuan tested Shen Bing’s potion on a dog and saw its remarkable effects, the military demanded exclusive ownership of the formula. Shen agreed in exchange for a three-year exemption from all taxes and fees. The contract was signed, and Shen returned to Rongcheng.
• News of the deal spread quickly. His dormmates called him back to campus, where they teased him into treating them to lunch.
• Shen offered his three friends jobs at his company, but each declined for personal reasons or because they preferred to avoid working under a friend.
• The Nancy Group’s 100-million-yuan advance payment arrived, leaving Shen wealthy on paper but still feeling that he had a long way to go.
• Wang Sheng reported that the tax exemption had been confirmed, machinery and workers were being arranged, and the glass factory was expected to begin production in about twenty days. Shen also instructed him to recruit art and design staff and chose Yongxin Plaza for the company’s office.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen is pleased with the deal but privately believes the military’s restriction may prove costly to the local government later. He also resents his father’s passivity during negotiations and avoids going home to escape his mother’s matchmaking pressure.
• His friendship with his dormmates remains warm: they joke and gossip rather than dwell on his sudden wealth. Their refusals to join his company reflect their desire to keep friendship separate from work, as well as their own career plans.
• Shen and Wang Sheng have a teasing, familiar working relationship. Wang jokes that Shen must have paid the tax bureau’s female leadership, prompting Shen to threaten his bonus.
• Shen’s business is growing rapidly, with factory construction, equipment, hiring, and office planning underway.

Significant themes

• The value of a bargain: The tax deal seems advantageous to both sides, though Shen suspects its true cost may become clear later.
• Wealth and ambition: Even a 100-million-yuan payment doesn’t make Shen feel secure or satisfy his ambitions.
• Friendship amid success: His dormmates’ ordinary banter helps preserve their closeness despite his new status.
• Family and independence: Shen’s strained, humorous relationship with his parents contrasts with the support and familiarity he finds among friends and colleagues.

• The company takes shape: Shen Bing leases the nineteenth floor of Yongxin Plaza for Phantom Immortal Technology, then gathers the small senior-management team for dinner. He welcomes new recruit Zhang Zi’an and is impressed by his judgment about hiring and personnel.
• Operations develop: Over the next two weeks, the new office is furnished and the company establishes its Sales, Finance, Legal, Human Resources, and Network departments under General Manager Wang Sheng. Recruitment fills nearly half the office space. The Network Department works overtime to build an ambitious, secure company website. Wang also continues to oversee the glass factory.
• The factory reaches a milestone: On October 29, phase one of the Illusion Immortal Glass Factory is completed. Shen inspects the modern facility and its equipment, gives his first major speech as chairman, and orders a celebratory meal for the workers and project teams. He stays behind to recalibrate the equipment himself, since producing Dream Glass depends on his adjustments.
• A possible problem emerges: Workshop director Dong Qiang stays behind and tells Shen that fellow worker Gangzi has recently been taking nearly every night shift. Dong once found him alone in the workshop after midnight, using an instrument to measure and map something. Shen conceals his concern, tells Dong he will investigate, and encourages him to gain management experience—hinting that he may eventually become factory director.
  Character developments and interactions: Shen is growing into his role as company chairman, balancing delegation with direct oversight of the factory. He recognizes Dong’s reliability and ambition, while Dong shows loyalty by raising his concern about Gangzi. Wang remains a key organizer, and Zhang’s arrival strengthens the management team.
  Themes: The chapter emphasizes rapid company growth, leadership and delegation, the value of capable employees, and the tension between trust and vigilance as the unexplained activity at the factory hints at possible trouble.

Key plot points and events

• Wang Gang enters the exclusive Spirit Dragon Street club by claiming to be a guest of Lin Zijian. He gives Lin a USB drive containing detailed information about Dream Glass’s equipment, production process, and ingredient ratios.
• Lin pays Wang an initial 500,000 yuan and promises ten times more if the information checks out.
• Lin and Young Master Yu plan to use the stolen secrets to start a rival company, undermine Phantom Immortal Technology, and take control of its business. Yu says he will handle Nancy Group and Phantom Immortal Technology, leaving the new company’s operations to Lin.
• Shen Bing suspects Wang stole the information to sell it, and Little Doudou confirms that Wang met Lin and Young Master Yu.
• Shen refuses Little Doudou’s suggestion to kill the two men, insisting that acting outside the law would create more trouble. He decides to handle the matter himself, while Little Doudou promptly returns to playing an online game.

Character developments

• Wang Gang is shown as greedy and status-conscious. The club’s luxury intensifies his desire to get rich, and he accepts the risk of selling company secrets for a large payout.
• Lin Zijian remains ambitious and resentful, eagerly pursuing a plan to exploit Dream Glass’s trade secrets.
• Young Master Yu backs the scheme but delegates much of its execution to Lin, while taking responsibility for dealing with powerful business targets.
• Shen Bing is angry at the threat to his company but remains cautious, rejecting violence in favor of a lawful response.
• Little Doudou is loyal and capable of surveillance, yet boastful and mischievous; it advocates violence, demands rewards, and casually plays games.

Significant themes

• Greed and ambition: Wang, Lin, and Yu seek wealth and power through stolen technology and market control.
• Corporate espionage and competition: Dream Glass’s success makes it a target, showing how innovation can attract both opportunity and sabotage.
• Law versus vengeance: Shen’s restraint contrasts with Little Doudou’s willingness to use force.
• Status and inequality: Wang’s awe at the club highlights the gulf between his ordinary life and the wealthy elite he hopes to join.

Character interactions

• Wang flatters Lin and delivers the stolen materials; Lin rewards him while keeping the larger promised payment conditional.
• Yu and Lin discuss how to turn the theft into a monopoly, with Yu setting the strategy and Lin managing the new company.
• Shen questions Little Doudou about its findings, then argues with it over whether to attack the conspirators.
• Little Doudou ignores Shen’s final warning and opens a laptop to play League of Legends.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing recruits twelve military veterans under Wang Dong, who becomes security captain of the Illusion Immortal Glass Factory. He installs a rigorous security system, while Shen secretly lets Lin Zijian continue trying to copy Dream Glass so he can exploit the situation.
• The factory passes inspection and begins round-the-clock production. Its glass-printing workshop must create and track individual designs for the Nancy Building, with strict penalties for mistakes. The order is large and the deadline tight, but Shen remains relaxed.
• Lin Zijian’s attempts to reproduce Dream Glass fail despite careful measurements, matching materials, and repeated equipment trials. After losing heavily, he summons Wang Gang and accuses him of supplying false information.
• Wang Gang insists his information is accurate and suggests Shen may have secretly altered the equipment. Lin and Young Master Yu find this plausible. Lin sends Wang Gang away under threat, while Yu says he will bring in specialists to obtain a working sample before the building’s glass installation begins.
• Wang Dong reports an unusual development to Shen. Shen tells him to concentrate security patrols on the new production facilities rather than the old workshop.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing remains confident and calculating: he anticipates the copy attempt, prioritizes protecting the new factory, and does not appear troubled by the demanding production schedule.
• Wang Dong adapts successfully from factory worker to security leader, demonstrating initiative by organizing protection and reporting suspicious activity.
• Lin Zijian grows frustrated and desperate as his costly experiments fail. He lashes out at Wang Gang but remains determined to secure a sample and influence his father’s position on the Dream Glass contract.
• Wang Gang shifts from expecting payment to fearing punishment. He defends himself, blames possible equipment tampering, and leaves without asking for the rest of his money.
• Young Master Yu is also under pressure: his father will not challenge the procurement project without a sample. He urges Lin to hire professionals, and Lin agrees to fund them.

Significant themes

• Innovation versus imitation: precise measurements and copied procedures cannot reproduce Dream Glass, suggesting that its true manufacturing secret lies beyond what the rivals understand.
• Security and corporate strategy: Shen protects his production facilities while allowing the competition to waste time and resources.
• Pressure and ambition: the approaching deadline intensifies the rivals’ desperation, while the factory’s strict quality controls reflect the stakes of large-scale production.
• Power and intimidation: Lin uses threats and violence against Wang Gang, who has little ability to resist.

Chapter Summary

Plot and key events

• Security captain Wang Dong reports unusual recent events, but Shen Bing’s response seems unrelated: he tells Wang to monitor Jiang Xiaofeng. Though confused, Wang accepts the order and insists on staying near the factory at night for security.
• Acting Legal Department head Gong Xiaolan reports that Dream Glass’s trademark and patents have been filed, the factory has passed its fire-safety inspection, and its environmental assessment is progressing. Shen stresses that the company must avoid procedural mistakes.
• Reviewing the finances, Shen sees that the company has spent heavily on machinery, wages, materials, and utilities. Hoping to use some of the remaining funds for the Immortal Realm shop, he discovers that the shop cannot draw money directly from the company account.
• Shen asks Finance Manager Zhuang Xin to transfer ten million yuan to his personal account. She explains that, as the owner of the sole proprietorship, he can use the funds personally, with the transaction recorded in the books.
• Shen tops up his shop balance, gaining 12 immortal jade. He considers buying advanced technology or the Eye of Gods and Demons, but decides to purchase a Teleportation Talisman instead.
• The talisman costs ten immortal jade and works only once, unlike his free Novice Talisman, which has three uses. However, it lets him teleport directly to places he has previously visited, without needing a quest. Shen regrets the cost but sees its strategic value.
• Finding no easy quest to complete, Shen longs for Marshal Tianpeng—his “Second Senior Brother”—to resume the quest to deliver a gift to Chang’e, which would give him a reason to use the talisman.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing balances his expanding business with his fascination with the Immortal Realm system. He is becoming more cautious about diversifying his company, but remains tempted by powerful supernatural goods. His excitement at receiving personal money reveals that financial control matters more to him than the company’s larger funds.
• Wang Dong is dutiful and security-conscious, volunteering to remain at the factory overnight despite Shen’s reassurance.
• Gong Xiaolan demonstrates efficiency and professionalism by quickly advancing the company’s legal and regulatory work.
• Zhuang Xin worries that Shen’s financial request may indicate an accounting mistake; she reassures him by explaining the company’s ownership and tax arrangements.
• Shen’s business interactions with Wang, Gong, and Zhuang contrast with his playful, impatient relationship to the quest system—especially his hope that Marshal Tianpeng will create an opportunity for him.

Significant themes

• Business growth and responsibility: Shen must secure permits, protect production, and manage substantial operating costs.
• Personal ambition versus corporate resources: He distinguishes company money from money he can freely spend, and carefully transfers funds before using the supernatural shop.
• The cost of power and opportunity: Immortal Realm tools offer new capabilities, but their high prices and limited uses force Shen to plan carefully.
• Comedic temptation and impatience: Shen’s grand technological ambitions repeatedly give way to humorous frustration over prices, missed quests, and the lack of an easy way to use his new talisman.

Plot points and events

• Shen Bing checks his bank records after topping up the Gate to the Immortal Realm. The ten million yuan appears to have moved overseas through legitimate channels, though he cannot explain how it became Immortal Jade. He concludes that personal accounts can fund the Gate and considers using an offshore company to manage future transfers, but lacks someone he trusts to handle it.
• Wang Dong calls asking to borrow 700,000 yuan. His younger sister was involved in a fatal car accident; the family has raised 300,000 yuan, insurance may cover 500,000, and the deceased man’s relatives are demanding 1.5 million.
• Shen Bing agrees to help and rushes to the hospital. There, a large, angry crowd has filled the ward and blocked Wang Dong’s family in. Shen Bing offers to advance compensation, but insists payment should wait until the traffic police complete their investigation.
• The crowd focuses on pressuring Shen Bing for money, leaving him overwhelmed and increasingly skeptical of their motives.

Character developments

• Shen Bing shows compassion toward Wang Dong and his family, choosing to help despite the unusually large loan request. He also handles the confrontation more cautiously than he might have before, emphasizing that the investigation must come first.
• Wang Dong is distressed and ashamed to ask for help, but explains the situation honestly.
• The female traffic officer is forceful and authoritative, though she mistakes Shen Bing for an insurance representative. The male officer clarifies who Shen Bing is.

Character interactions

• Shen Bing and Wang Dong’s exchange shifts from a request for money to a discussion of the accident and the family’s predicament.
• Shen Bing offers help to Wang Dong, then faces the deceased man’s relatives, who seize on his offer as grounds to demand compensation immediately.
• The officers try to manage the crowd, while Shen Bing attempts to keep the situation orderly and defer decisions until the investigation is complete.

Significant themes

• Wealth and responsibility: Shen Bing’s money gives him the means to intervene, but he must decide how to help without acting rashly.
• Trust and dependence: His lack of trusted staff complicates both his business plans and his personal affairs.
• Grief, compensation, and conflict: The chapter contrasts the genuine tragedy of a fatal accident with the aggressive, chaotic dispute over money.

Plot points and events

• Shen Bing joins Wang Dong, Wang Yatong, the deceased Chen Dejun’s family, traffic police, and insurers in negotiations over Yatong’s fatal accident. With little evidence about how it happened, the family demands immediate compensation and threatens to have Yatong detained.
• To spare Yatong detention, Shen Bing pays the family 700,000 yuan. The agreement is signed, but their sudden satisfaction leaves him suspicious that the accident may involve something underhanded.
• The next morning, Shen Bing learns his intimidating neighbor, Li Xiao, is moving out. Little Doudou returns with a crumpled note found among Chen Dejun’s clothes: “Do you still remember the wronged soul from ten years ago?”
• Shen Bing recognizes the handwriting as Li Xiao’s and wonders whether Li Xiao was the tall man seen near the accident. He sends Little Doudou to track Li Xiao down and discreetly incapacitate him, promising payment in Immortal Fish.
• While waiting, Shen Bing works at home on the technical information for an Over-the-Horizon Telescope, beginning to transfer its chip designs and instruction set onto paper.

Character developments

• Shen Bing acts generously toward Wang Dong’s family, but his intuition makes him question the apparent resolution of the accident. He shifts from reluctant helper to amateur investigator, while also pursuing his ambitious technical project.
• Wang Dong is deeply grateful for Shen Bing’s support and accepts his offer not to rush into selling the family home.
• Wang Yatong recovers from her shock and is grateful, though the circumstances of the accident remain unclear.
• Little Doudou demonstrates its intelligence and usefulness as a tracker, while bargaining for a reward.
• Li Xiao becomes more mysterious: his matching handwriting and possible presence at the scene hint at a connection to Chen Dejun and an old injustice.

Significant themes

• Appearances versus reality: The accident appears settled, but clues suggest a hidden story.
• Justice and uncertainty: With no reliable witnesses or surveillance, the negotiations prioritize compensation over discovering what truly happened.
• Loyalty and generosity: Shen Bing protects Wang Yatong and supports Wang Dong’s family despite the cost.
• Ambition and innovation: Shen Bing’s advanced technical knowledge points toward a major breakthrough with the telescope.

Character interactions

• Shen Bing mediates between Wang Dong’s family and the deceased’s relatives, ultimately paying the compensation himself.
• Wang Dong pleads for his sister and later thanks Shen Bing; Shen Bing reassures him that repayment is not urgent.
• Little Doudou reports its discovery to Shen Bing, who recruits it to investigate Li Xiao in exchange for an Immortal Fish.

Plot points and events

• Shen Bing’s phone receives a call from Little Doudou. He checks the location and drives to a secluded country road outside the city.
• Little Doudou has stopped Li Xiao’s SUV and subdued him by speaking directly into his mind and slicing the steering wheel with a paw. It appoints Li Xiao its “underling,” intending to make him useful to Shen Bing.
• Shen Bing arrives and privately questions Little Doudou’s judgment. Little Doudou insists that Li Xiao is not a bad person and is now too frightened to disobey.
• Li Xiao recognizes Shen Bing as his housemate and realizes that the intimidating kitten belongs to him. Shen Bing then confronts Li Xiao about the car accident from the previous day.
• Li Xiao initially denies involvement, but Little Doudou’s threat makes him confess. He says he deliberately gave a drug dealer a lethal methamphetamine overdose; the man’s resulting hallucinations caused him to run into the road and be struck by a car.
• Li Xiao admits it was effectively premeditated murder, but says he would do it again because the victim had ruined many lives—including his younger sister’s.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing remains composed and in control, using Little Doudou’s presence to pressure Li Xiao into revealing the truth. He is amused but wary of Little Doudou’s independent, heavy-handed methods.
• Little Doudou displays striking strength, telepathy, and confidence, treating Li Xiao as a subordinate. It wants to help Shen Bing build a team, though its claim that it can judge character leaves Shen Bing somewhat skeptical.
• Li Xiao shifts from stunned fear and denial to confession. His hatred of the drug dealer suggests that his crime was motivated by personal grief and anger rather than simple malice.
• The chapter’s central interaction is the comic yet threatening power dynamic between Little Doudou and Li Xiao, followed by Shen Bing’s interrogation and Li Xiao’s reluctant revelation.

Significant themes

• Justice versus law: Li Xiao sees his murder as deserved punishment, while Shen Bing frames it as a crime with legal consequences.
• Power and obedience: Little Doudou’s supernatural abilities let it dominate Li Xiao and influence Shen Bing’s plans.
• Personal trauma and revenge: Li Xiao’s confession reveals that the victim’s drug dealing harmed his family, especially his sister.
• Unexpected appearances: The ordinary-looking kitten’s extraordinary abilities repeatedly overturn Li Xiao’s assumptions.

Plot points and events

• Shen Bing accepts Li Xiao’s account of why he killed Chen Dejun and decides not to report him. He hires Li Xiao and instructs him to establish a confidential offshore company and bank account.
• To verify Li Xiao’s trustworthiness, Shen Bing secretly has Little Doudou follow him.
• Shen Bing keeps the incident from his staff, including Wang Dong, and plans to compensate Wang Dong with a 1.5-million-yuan bonus.
• Searching the Gate to the Immortal Realm for useful missions, Shen Bing finds none he can afford. He considers befriending the Plague God to complete the “Depressed Plague God” mission, but postpones the idea.
• Reviewing the company’s procurement plan, Shen Bing orders departments to manage office-supply purchases, calls for major server upgrades, and proposes building a dedicated transport team that could eventually grow into a logistics company.
• He tells Wang Sheng that Phantom Immortal Technology may expand beyond glass into materials, energy, cars, and robotics. Wang Sheng is briefly inspired, then suspects Shen Bing is making grand promises ahead of the company’s actual progress.
• Shen Bing learns that construction firms are interested in buying Dream Glass products. He sets the price at 20 percent above the deal with the Nancy Group, with no discounts.

Character development and interactions

• Shen Bing shows a more sympathetic judgment of Li Xiao after learning about his family’s fate and motive for revenge, though he remains cautious and orders surveillance. He also demonstrates ambitious leadership, combining concrete planning with persuasive, sometimes exaggerated visions.
• Li Xiao is revealed as a loyal, family-minded man shaped by a traumatic past and a hard life as a mercenary. He eagerly accepts Shen Bing’s offer, anticipating an exciting new path.
• Wang Sheng acts as a practical counterweight to Shen Bing’s expansive plans, questioning the expense and necessity of a logistics operation. Though skeptical, he keeps his doubts to himself.
• Little Doudou remains Shen Bing’s discreet safeguard, following Li Xiao without his knowledge.
• Wang Dong is absent from the conversation, but Shen Bing’s decision to keep him uninformed while planning a bonus reflects his effort to manage the consequences quietly.

Significant themes

• Family and revenge: Li Xiao’s devotion to his family explains his extreme actions and changes Shen Bing’s view of him.
• Trust and caution: Shen Bing offers Li Xiao a place in the company but still verifies his reliability.
• Ambition versus practicality: Shen Bing imagines a broad technological future, while Wang Sheng worries about overreach and immediate costs.
• Bluffing and persuasion: Shen Bing’s confident vision excites Wang Sheng even though much of it remains aspirational.
• Scarcity and opportunity: Shen Bing’s plans are constrained by limited funds, while the growing demand for Dream Glass offers a promising source of revenue.

Plot points and events

• Shen Bing arrives at campus by taxi and finds Lin Zijian trying to court Wang Yanxi with roses and a Ferrari. Yanxi rejects him, then spots Shen Bing and uses him as a human shield, linking arms with him and pretending they came to read together.
• Shen Bing plays along, partly to spite Lin Zijian. When Lin insults him, Shen takes a phone call about a 400-million-yuan deal, leaving the bystanders unsure whether he is genuinely wealthy or merely showing off.
• Shen and Yanxi leave together. Once out of Lin’s sight, Yanxi apologizes and offers to buy Shen dinner in thanks. He declines for that evening but agrees to exchange numbers; she enters his number and leaves without calling to confirm it.
• Lin catches up in his Ferrari and threatens Shen, saying Yanxi’s involvement could bring harm to Shen and his parents. Shen responds coldly that Lin should bring it on. Lin then considers hiring the men who had previously come to Rongcheng to deal with him.

Character developments

• Shen Bing is more confident and socially bold than before: he returns Yanxi’s affectionate gesture, handles the crowd’s attention with ease, and refuses to be intimidated by Lin. Still, he is awkwardly excited by Yanxi’s touch and invitation.
• Wang Yanxi shows a playful, practical side, using Shen to discourage Lin but apologizing afterward and sincerely offering to thank him. Her unexpected departure after taking his number leaves Shen flustered.
• Lin Zijian shifts from polished courtship to open contempt and threats when rejected. His wounded pride hardens into a desire for revenge.

Themes

• Pride and status: Lin relies on his Ferrari and social standing, while Shen’s apparent wealth unsettles the crowd’s assumptions about him.
• Confidence and changing identity: Shen is increasingly willing to act and speak assertively, even when he is unsure how to handle romance.
• Jealousy and possessiveness: Lin treats Yanxi’s choice as a personal affront and tries to control whom she sees.
• Bluff versus reality: The crowd debates whether Shen’s business call is genuine, while the chapter leaves his financial power only partly explained.

Character interactions

• Yanxi’s coordinated act with Shen humiliates Lin and causes campus onlookers to speculate about Shen’s status.
• Shen and Yanxi share a light, teasing exchange after the act ends; her apology and dinner offer make their interaction warmer and more personal.
• Lin’s threats mark a sharp escalation from romantic pursuit to intimidation, while Shen’s calm defiance establishes a direct conflict between the two men.